Insights: Policy

Medicaid Program Integrity

The Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS-OIG) has decertified and defunded Hawaii’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU), withholding $3m in federal funds.

The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) unanimously ruled in Hikma Pharmaceuticals v. Amarin Pharma that Hikma’s FDA-approved “skinny label” for generic Vascepa did not induce infringement of Amarin’s patented cardiovascular-risk use. On the same day as the decision, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence,...

Medicare Advantage (MA) Star Ratings

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia ruled in Clover v. HHS, finding that CMS improperly included 20 measures in Clover’s PY26 MA Star Rating and ordered the agency to recalculate Clover’s 3.5-star PPO rating.

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Government Ownership in AI Firms

In recent days, President Trump has twice floated the idea of the U.S. government taking a financial stake in major AI firms, or otherwise structuring AI’s gains so that the public shares in the upside. Major AI companies have not specifically reacted to Trump’s idea, but both Anthropic and OpenAI have suggested various ways for the public to...

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Since last week's release of draft AI preemption legislation by Reps. Obernolte (R-CA) and Trahan (D-MA), initial reactions have been broadly negative, including from lawmakers in both parties and stakeholders. Separately, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Cruz (R-TX) is preparing for a committee vote that could pair a federal AI framework with...

Reconciliation 3.0

President Trump yesterday called for Republicans to pass a third reconciliation bill (so-called “reconciliation 3.0”) and specifically highlighted his proposed $350b in defense spending as well as the SAVE Act (election integrity legislation) as his priorities. House Republicans have for the last couple of months been actively contemplating how...